[4] During Operation Market Garden on 20 September 1944, Nuenen was the scene of a battle involving the American 506th PIR of the 101st Airborne Division and the British 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars of the 11th Armoured Division equipped with Cromwell tanks, against the German 107th Panzer Brigade.

The spoken language is Peellands (an East Brabantian dialect, which is very similar to colloquial Dutch).

He also painted his father's church, vicarage and its garden, one such work being Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen (Het uitgaan van de hervormde kerk te Nuenen) depicting the church, which is situated in a park area on the corner of Papenvoort Street and Houtrijk Street in the north of Nuenen.

[8] This painting was stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in December 2002 and recovered in Italy in September 2016.

Theoretical computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra lived in Nuenen later in his life, and died there in 2002.